Bureaucratic Model An Objective Understanding Of...

Bureaucratic Model as it Pertains to Training Methods of Policing First, to understand the bureaucracy model is important to obtain a clear understanding of ideologies associated with para-militarism and the Federal Bureau of Investigations. The modern police bureaucracy emerged in the 20th century when the professionalism movement occurred. The leaders of the movement were August Vollmer, Bruce Smith, and O.W. Wilson who adopted the military model from Sir Robert Peel. The field of police management was developed in order to cope with the complexity of specialized units, so experts borrowed the management principles from business administration and applied them to police administration. However, the degree of specialization depends on the size and nature of the problems within the community. Nevertheless, modern police departments are bureaucratic organization because it is the most efficient way to develop organizational structure and directing different activities in complex organ izations because they must perform many different tasks to purse a common goal. The organizational structure is hierarchical to make communication efficient as it flows up and down the chain of command between lines of operational services, authority figures, and administration. Tasks are usually separated into divisions and responsibilities are delegated to lower ranking officers so there is a clear chain of command to indicate who is responsible for supervising employees and the task at